Virus-derived small interfering RNAs at the core of plant–virus interactions

C Llave - Trends in plant science, 2010 - cell.com
Once a virus enters a cell, viral double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) is targeted by the RNA
silencing machinery to initiate a cascade of regulatory events directed by viral small …

Small RNAs in viral infection and host defense

S Mlotshwa, GJ Pruss, V Vance - Trends in plant science, 2008 - cell.com
Small RNAs are the key mediators of RNA silencing and related pathways in plants and
other eukaryotic organisms. Silencing pathways couple the destruction of double-stranded …

Long ds RNA but not si RNA initiates RNA i in western corn rootworm larvae and adults

H Li, C Khajuria, M Rangasamy… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Transgenic maize plants expressing ds RNA targeting western corn rootworm (WCR,
Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte) v‐ATP ase subunit C mRNA for RNA i provided …

A conserved sequence signature is essential for robust plant miRNA biogenesis

A Narjala, A Nair, V Tirumalai… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Micro (mi) RNAs are 20–22nt long non-coding RNA molecules involved in post-
transcriptional silencing of targets having high base-pair complementarity. Plant miRNAs are …

Molecular Characteristics and Efficacy of 16D10 siRNAs in Inhibiting Root-Knot Nematode Infection in Transgenic Grape Hairy Roots

Y Yang, Y Jittayasothorn, D Chronis, X Wang… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Root-knot nematodes (RKNs) infect many annual and perennial crops and are the most
devastating soil-born pests in vineyards. To develop a biotech-based solution for controlling …

Investigations of barley stripe mosaic virus as a gene silencing vector in barley roots and in Brachypodium distachyon and oat

A Pacak, K Geisler, B Jørgensen… - Plant methods, 2010 - Springer
Background Gene silencing vectors based on Barley stripe mosaic virus (BSMV) are used
extensively in cereals to study gene function, but nearly all studies have been limited to …

Characterization of Small Interfering RNAs Derived from Sugarcane Mosaic Virus in Infected Maize Plants by Deep Sequencing

Z **a, J Peng, Y Li, L Chen, S Li, T Zhou, Z Fan - PLoS One, 2014 - journals.plos.org
RNA silencing is a conserved surveillance mechanism against viruses in plants. It is
mediated by Dicer-like (DCL) proteins producing small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which …

Characterization of siRNAs derived from rice stripe virus in infected rice plants by deep sequencing

F Yan, H Zhang, MJ Adams, J Yang, J Peng… - Archives of …, 2010 - Springer
RNA interference is a natural defense against viruses in plants. To date, the only viral
siRNAs characterized have been those for positive-sense RNA viruses with one or two …

Sequence Recombination and Conservation of Varroa destructor Virus-1 and Deformed Wing Virus in Field Collected Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

H Wang, J **e, TG Shreeve, J Ma, DW Pallett, LA King… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
We sequenced small (s) RNAs from field collected honeybees (Apis mellifera) and
bumblebees (Bombus pascuorum) using the Illumina technology. The sRNA reads were …

Identification of small RNAs associated with meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA

TM Hammond, WG Spollen, LM Decker, SM Blake… - Genetics, 2013 - academic.oup.com
In Neurospora crassa, unpaired genes are silenced by a mechanism called meiotic
silencing by unpaired DNA (MSUD). Although some RNA interference proteins are …